Marc Summers LIVE! : Thin Crust Pizza & Junior's Cheesecake
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
You may know Marc Summers as the host of Nickelodeon's Double Dare and Food Network's Unwrapped, but you may not know that he got his start as a magician and helped launch Guy Fieri's career!
Marc joined host Rachel Belle on stage at Seattle's Crosscut Ideas Festival to talk about what the iconic Double Dare slime was made of, how he almost gave up show business to sell salmon, and why he decided to go public about his OCD in the late 90s.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:22.2 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:26.3 | the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:30.8 | Today on the program, Mark Summers. |
| 0:34.1 | If you were of my generation, if you grew up in the 80s or early 90s, you probably |
| 0:38.0 | know Mark as the host of Nickelodeon's super popular kids game show, Double Dare, where contestants |
| 0:44.0 | slid through chocolate syrup were drenched in green slime and stuck their hands of giant |
| 0:49.4 | whipped cream-filled noses to find the coveted orange flag. Then Mark spent 20 years with the Food Network. |
| 0:55.6 | He was the host of Unwrapped. He produced shows like Dinner Impossible and the next Food Network star, |
| 1:00.5 | where he helped discover Guy Fieri. Now he has a podcast called Mark Summers Unwraps. |
| 1:06.1 | Mark joined me for a special live show at the Crosscut Ideas Festival in Seattle, |
| 1:09.8 | and I had so much fun planning |
| 1:11.6 | this because we had a caterer and we were doing themed food before the show and during the show. |
| 1:17.0 | So the audience got to snack on this special menu inspired by Double Dare and Mark's last meal. |
| 1:23.1 | And I have to say, I was especially proud of the desserts that I came up with, a chocolate nose with |
| 1:28.6 | crushed pistachio boogers and a mini cheesecake covered in green edible slime. This is what I love |
| 1:35.3 | about the internet. You type in chocolate nose molds and you find chocolate nose molds. Mark and I talk |
| 1:41.6 | about why food was such a huge part of the double-dair physical |
| 1:44.7 | challenges, what the famous slime was actually made of, and Mark talks about why he decided to tell |
| 1:50.8 | the world he has OCD. Okay, let's get into it. Here is Mark Summers and me on stage at Seattle's |
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